Samantha Walker

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NSP Buck's personal financial services division hopes to double its planner numbers by December in an aggressive move on the retail fi-nancial planning market....

9 April 1999

A significant number of funds management groups missed the June 30 deadline for lodgement of trustee retirement notices under the Manag-ing Investments Act (MIA), accordi...

9 April 1999

By offering choice to employees, the superannuation industry is boosting the demand for financial advice, but super funds are going head to head with financial planning g...

Any plans of a merger between the Life Insurance Complaints Service (LICS) and the Financial Services Complaints Resolution Scheme (FSCRS) have been scuttled, at least in...

With less than a month in the managing director seat, Garry Mulcahy has already set his sights on new opportunities for the FlexiPlan master trust operations. Samantha Wa...

Products are to be culled as a result of the merger between Tower and FAI Life, according to Tower Corporation group managing director James Boonzaier....

Ipac Securities has entered the South African market with the pur-chase of a 50 per cent stake in the unit trust business of Brait SA....

The fallout from Tower Life Australia's merger with FAI Life has be-gun with several high profile departures....

County Investment Management has been on a hiring spree, with six new faces joining the group. ...

A new financial planning firm has bucked the industry trend, with its planners leaving a major corporation's ranks to set up shop on their own....

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